On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 08:45 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 07:51 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:09 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > > > It appears from this that your milter-greylist properly daemonizes > > itself (i.e. it detaches itself from the terminal), unlike the milter > > Craig is trying to use. So I expect this script won't work for him. > > > > It might actually be easier to patch the (perl) milter to do this, in > > much the same way as the SPF milter does at > > http://spf.pobox.com/sendmail-milter-spf-1.41.pl > > > > (the relevant code is near the bottom of the file) > ---- > Yes, the script did not work for me because as you correctly > anticipated, it didn't detach itself from the terminal. I see the > comments in the linked script about where it detaches from the terminal > and will look at the script that I am using. > > I obviously have 3 options now - modify the script I am using, or use > the 1 you referenced (and obviously all the implementation changes) or > the other one that Scott is referencing (and obviously all the > implementation changes). > > I'm not adverse to other implementation and I generally look at these > things as the opportunity to learn. The stuff that I am looking at from > projects.puremagic.com uses mysql as the datastore and since I had mysql > running on it, wasn't hard to implement. So I will venture forth into > perl - with teeth clenched, perhaps for the learning experience - thanks > - and will keep you both posted on final/success or retreat to other > script. ---- ok to follow up and finish this thread - After getting some quiet time aside, I rolled up my sleeves and was going to invest some energy into perl code (clearly something I wasn't born to do) and then got true inspiration and found the cvs version which did offer option to fork as a daemon - no blood spilled. Thanks guys Craig
